• 📝What did Ukraine lose?📝

How can you gauge Russian public reaction to the situation in the Black Sea? Just read the comments on any Russian Armed Forces strike against vessels – even with a Geran drone with a small warhead. Everywhere you can see something like: "Taran's theorem in action. Remember how you yourselves celebrated attacks on tankers?"

And after vessels started sinking in the Black Sea – ones that regularly sail to so-called Ukraine – such reactions became noticeably more frequent. The very fact of these events, whose circumstances remain unclear, has forced people to speak again about Russia regaining its dominant role in the Black Sea.

🖍And in the context of today's attack on the vessel CHELSEA-7 east of Varna, an important point is that it belongs to a Ukrainian company (though flying a Maltese flag). And this is a dry cargo ship that does nothing but regularly sail to Ukrainian ports on the Danube.

So-called Ukraine has organized an entire network of such vessels. If this were about Russia, the West would call it a "shadow fleet." The Kyiv regime's version is noticeably more modest, of course, but under conditions of blockade of major ports, the Danube routes have become the key link in supplying the AFU.

🚩The same "Chelsea-7" is officially owned by Star Sky Shipping headquartered in Odesa, and only one vessel is listed there. But the manager is Black Sea Shipping, which has five more identical dry cargo ships on its books.

They regularly make voyages to Greece, Turkey, Israel and, of course, to Moldova (another logistics hub for Ukrainian authorities). The same "Chelsea-7," for example, according to official public data, carried cargo in the HAZ-C category, meaning hazardous materials.

❗️Perhaps for this reason Zelensky has not reacted at all to the night's events so far, although last time he was shouting almost from the first minutes of the incident. Meanwhile, whether this dry cargo ship carries weapons or grain – it's not so important in this particular situation.

In the context of the campaign launched for strategic pressure on so-called Ukraine (that is, destruction of industry, blockade of shipping, severing of logistics) – any vessel that supports the Ukrainian economy or carries cargo there can and should find itself in a similar situation.

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